Pointless Facts Thread

[passerby]

A galaxy called Hercules is so far away that it takes 30,000 years for light from its galaxy to reach Earth. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second.

 

[Griffin]

# There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard

# The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.

# A frog's favorite color is blue

 

[Griffin]

# Butterflies can fly at twenty mph

# The hummingbird is the only bird which can fly backwards

# Hummingbirds have the fastest metabolism of any animal, they require from 6,000 to 12,400 calories per day (depending on the species)

# An electric eel will short circuit if put into salt water

# A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground

# Camel's milk does not curdle.

# Reindeer milk has three times the protein of cow milk

 

[Griffin]

The dog name "Fido" comes from the Latin meaning "I trust thee"

 

[Griffin]

Starfish have no brains

 

[Griffin]

Porcupines *********e (I'm not kidding)

 

[passerby]

griffen slow down....

 

[Griffin]

# It takes 4 hours to hard boil an ostrich egg

# The male earwig's rear-end pincers are curved

# It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have been only 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world

# A jiffy is one-hundred-thousand-billion-billionth of a second

 

[Griffin]

there is 1/10 of a calorie on the back of a stamp

 

[Griffin]

sorry i have loads lol.

 

[Griffin]

An Olympic gold medal must contain 92.5 percent silver

 

[Griffin]

Sigmund Freud bought his first sample of cocaine for $1.27 a gram

 

[passerby]

ya i can see that but only put like the really really weird ones
oh and im pretty sure that with every lick of a postage stamp its 1 calorie

 

[Griffin]

griffen slow down....

keep posting then lol

 

[Griffin]

The toilet on the Space shuttle boasts a footrest, handholds, a seat belt and a suction fan

 

[Griffin]

There is an odd number of steps in every staircase in Thailand

 

[passerby]

heres a pointless fact: Griffen posts at about 5 posts in 10 seconds

 

[Griffin]

Louis the XIV took only three baths in his lifetime

 

[Griffin]

heres a pointless fact: Griffen posts at about 5 posts in 10 seconds

hay i am quick at typing lol

 

[Griffin]

The yo-yo was originally a weapon in the Philippines

 

[passerby]

William the Bastard was the last person to invade and conquer England in 1066AD

 

[Griffin]

# There are only thirteen blimps in the world.

# Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.

# The largest existing blimp is the Fuji Film blimp

 

[Griffin]

No piece of paper can be folded more than twenty times

 

[Griffin]

The only acceptable sexual position in Washington D.C. is the missionary-style position. Any other sexual position is considered illegal.

 

[passerby]

In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark